Charles County Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services

10/02/2026

Reminder, hope to see you there !

09/30/2026

🚑 OUR NEW EMS UTILITY TRAILER HAS ARRIVED!

The Charles County Association of Emergency Medical Services is excited to announce the arrival of our new EMS utility trailer!

A special THANK YOU to the ARBA Graphics Team for the outstanding job on the graphics. They did a fantastic job bringing everything together and giving the trailer a professional look that proudly represents our EMS Association.

We also extend our sincere appreciation to Ultra Trailer Sales for working with us throughout the procurement process and helping us get this new resource on the road.

Next step: Installation of the tie-down system so we can safely and properly secure our ATV and associated equipment during transport.

Once completed, this trailer will provide another important resource to support our EMS operations and the citizens and communities we proudly serve throughout Charles County.

🚑 Charles County Association of Emergency Medical Services
Volunteers Serving Our Community

09/30/2026

Here's another success made by our volunteer assets in the Special Operations Marine Division

09/30/2026

🍂🔥 FALL FIRE SAFETY MESSAGE 🔥🍂
A Message from Fire Prevention Officer Tre' Proctor

Fall is officially here, and we’ve been fortunate to have some warmer weather this week. Before the colder temperatures settle in, I encourage everyone to take advantage of this warm stretch to prepare your home and heating equipment for the months ahead.

As the temperatures begin to drop, our Fire and EMS departments are already seeing the seasonal increase in calls for odors of smoke, malfunctioning heating appliances, fireplaces, furnaces, and other heating-related concerns.

Last year around this time, firefighters responded to numerous residential fires involving dirty, poorly maintained, or malfunctioning heating appliances. Many of these situations can be prevented with a little preparation before that first cold night.

Please take some time this week or weekend to:

🔥 Have your furnace or heating system inspected and serviced.

🔥 Have chimneys and fireplaces professionally inspected and cleaned before use.

🔥 Clean and inspect wood stoves, pellet stoves, and other heating appliances.

🔥 Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment.

🔥 Inspect portable space heaters, electrical cords, plugs, and outlets before using them.

🔥 Never plug a space heater into an extension cord or power strip.

🔥 Test your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms and replace batteries when necessary.

🔥 Review your family's home escape plan and make sure everyone knows two ways out.

Don't wait until the first cold night to discover there's a problem.

Use this beautiful fall weather to prepare now. A few minutes spent inspecting, cleaning, and servicing your heating equipment could prevent a fire, save your home — or even save a life.

If just one person reads this message and takes action that prevents a tragedy, we've accomplished our goal.

Prepare now. Heat safely later.

09/29/2026

Some great food, come out and support your volunteers

Come see us next Friday and let us do the cooking for you. Chicken dinner is back by popular demand! Reminder, we accept cash and check only, no cards at this time.

09/29/2026

09/29/2026

Going to be a great time, stop by, check out these old pieces of apparatus, taking care of by mostly veterans of the fire service across the region

🚒 Antique fire apparatus owners and enthusiasts - join us for the Southern Maryland Volunteer Firemen’s Association Antique Fire Apparatus Muster!

📅 Sunday, October 18, 2026 | 10 AM - 3 PM
📍 Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department
24801 Three Notch Road, Hollywood, MD

Bring your rig or come enjoy antique and modern apparatus, a firematic flea market, food, and fire service history! Pre-registered apparatus receive a participation plaque. Rain or shine!

Details and apparatus registration: https://www.smvfa.net/muster

Share with a fellow fire apparatus enthusiast!

09/29/2026

Meanwhile completely on the other side of the training center we find MFRI Instructor Montgomery lecturing our class on “Self Contained Breathing” equipment and the hands on techniques in mastering the skill

09/29/2026

🚨 MULTI-STATION TRAINING DRILL — TRAUMA TRIAGE & ACTIVATION 🚨
Charles County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Station 51, invites our Fire/EMS partners to join us for an important evening of training focused on recognizing the right patient, acting early, and improving outcomes.

We are honored to welcome Christopher Michetti, MD, FACS, FCCM, Chief of Trauma/Trauma Medical Director at the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center – Level II Adult Trauma Center, as our instructor.

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026
⏰ 7:00 PM (1900 hours)
📍 CCVRS Station 51 — 2 Calvert Street, La Plata

Training will focus on trauma triage, trauma criteria, activation processes and expectations, case reviews, and commonly missed trauma criteria.

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This is an excellent opportunity for EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, officers, and other operational personnel to strengthen their understanding of trauma recognition and the decisions that can make a difference for our patients.

🚑 RECOGNIZE EARLY. ACTIVATE EARLY. TRANSPORT APPROPRIATELY. IMPROVE OUTCOMES.

The right patient. The right destination. The right time.